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Niamh Griffin @griffinniamh.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
The national figures are worrying, but individually some hospitals face far bigger challenges - a real postcode lottery as one oncologist said #cancer www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...
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Niamh Griffin @griffinniamh.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Some really shocking findings about delays in cancer care despite all the progress, from Irish Cancer Society looking at HSE data #speirghorm www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...
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Delays in cancer treatment are 'causing avoidable deaths', Irish Cancer Society warns
It also warned of major disparity in wait times for different regions across the country
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Niamh Griffin @griffinniamh.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Very interesting day #wctc2025 a big focus on vaping and the push by the tobacco industry to increase e-cigarette use as tobacco use declines - though its not declining in all countries as much as it is here
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Niamh Griffin @griffinniamh.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
We have a few days coverage now of findings from a national survey on women's health, lots to read about - thoughts on childcare, miscarriage supports, fertility, menopause and lots more #womenshealth www.irishexaminer.com/womens-healt...
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Jess Casey @jesscasey.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
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'It was an emotional moment': Students complete Ireland's first Leaving Cert Ukrainian exam
Thousands of students across Ireland have made history by sitting the first Leaving Certificate exam in Ukrainian which has joined the list of non-curricular languages tested in State exams
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Niamh Griffin @griffinniamh.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Thanks Darius for sharing that, there seems to be a lot of different interpretations of what the Bill says unfortunately @dariuswh.bsky.social
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Niamh Griffin @griffinniamh.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Some really harrowing experiences shared by members of Care Champions outside the Dail today, lots of questions about the standards of care in many nursing homes #speirghorm
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Niamh Griffin @griffinniamh.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
And this older interview with a solicitor for some children who had 2 hip surgeries done - why did no-one notice so many double hip surgeries were being done when the Audit showed it should be 1 in 3 only? #SpéirGhorm www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...
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Novel hip dysplasia surgery risks not properly explained, say parents
Ciaran Tansey, a partner with Damien Tansey Solicitors LLP, said parents are worried about how long this might take in reality
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Niamh Griffin @griffinniamh.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Problems with diagnosis, no register, no audit - we don't even know how many children have hip dysplasia here every year www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...
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Hip surgery becoming necessary for many children 'due to late diagnosis' amid lack of screening
'Worrying' gaps in care for children with hip dysplasia raised in 2017 and again in 2024 have still not been addressed
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Niamh Griffin @griffinniamh.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
🧵 Still no national screening programme for hip dysplasia 8 years after a working group made recommendations? "The whole thing is in chaos now. It’s probably seen as toxic There is no sense of urgency, no sense of determination to get this done" #SpéirGhorm www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...
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Screening to help babies avoid hip dysplasia surgery still not in place, eight years on
The national screening programme proposed by a HSE steering group in 2017 was not set up. Now a consultant says 'we have no idea what the national rate of late diagnosis is' as a result
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Niamh Griffin @griffinniamh.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
"we need to talk about our nursing homes" Prof Ronan Collins writing today in the Examiner , he took part in that devastating RTE expose on #emeis www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
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We need to talk about our nursing homes
Caring for older people is hard work - physically, emotionally and intellectually - so it needs to be valued and resourced. Prime Time shows that is not happening, writes Professor Rónán Collins
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Niamh Griffin @griffinniamh.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
“You would hear stories of parents coming straight from the hospital to hand over their babies.” Sean Abbott at Horizons/ Cope Foundation on how some things have changed #disabilities #speirgorm Story by Sarah Horgan www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...
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'Parents would come straight from hospital to hand over their babies...'
As Sean Abbott retires from Horizons after 40 years, he reflects on Ireland’s progress — and its ongoing failures
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Irish Examiner @irishexaminer.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
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'Who am I to question the doctor?': Mother fears son's hip surgery may have been unnecessary
Parents are left reeling as a CHI audit questions the medical justification behind hundreds of children’s hip surgeries
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Medical Protection @medicalprotection.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Our joint letter to the Minister for Health & Minister for Justice calling for pre-action protocols to be implemented urgently, in @irishexaminer.bsky.social 14 leading organisations have united on this issue – the message is clear. @griffinniamh.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...
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Doctors and patient advocates unite to call for reform of medical claims process
The letter to health minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill and justice minister Jim O’Callaghan calls for several measures including pre-action protocols
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Niamh Griffin @griffinniamh.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
The gift of life, and of time with people you love - v moving stories at the launch for organ donor awareness week #speirgorm
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Niamh Griffin @griffinniamh.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
It's really helpful to see it laid out like that, so many conflicting arguments at the moment
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Niamh Griffin @griffinniamh.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Very interesting thread #autism #adhd
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Concern Worldwide @concernworldwide.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
If you want to listen to a powerful radio documentary, check out “Can you hear me? Dispatches from the world's forgotten war” by @newstalkfm.bsky.social ‘s Sarah Madden. It was made during a trip to the Sudan/ South Sudan border last month. ⤵️ bit.ly/42DKOxO
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Can you hear me? Dispatches from the world's forgotten war. | Newstalk
It's two years to the week since fighting broke out in Sudan, instigating what is now the world's...
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Niamh Griffin @griffinniamh.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
I travelled with @concernworldwide.bsky.social and got to meet midwives, social workers and medics working with refugees as well as the local South Sudanese - all photos in these stories Eugene Ikua, Concern www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlig... #sudan
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South Sudan: 'People in our community are fearful because this cholera outbreak will cost many lives'
The Irish Examiner travelled to South Sudan to meet with some of the 1.1m refugees who have fled across the border from civil war in Sudan. Women, children and men all shared stories of pain but also ...
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Niamh Griffin @griffinniamh.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
🧵I spoke with @mickcliff.bsky.social on his podcast about meeting Sudanese refugees from civil war there who've fled to South Sudan. We were there just a few weeks ago hearing from people who've lived through 2 years of war now - www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm... @irishexaminer.bsky.social
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The Mick Clifford Podcast: The forgotten war that is far from international focus
The Irish Examiner’s Niamh Griffin recently visited one of the refugee camps in South Sudan and reported on the forgotten war
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Niamh Griffin @griffinniamh.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
"We seem to be making the same mistakes again" an interesting interview about merging cultures for the new children's hospital with Dr Paul Davis @dublincityuni.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm... #dublin
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Children's hospital is almost ready — but questions remain about managing the transition
Incorporating Crumlin, Temple Street, and Tallaght children's hospitals into the NCH may be a bigger challenge than the eye-watering cost
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Haunted DCU Library 👻 @dculibrary.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Our colleagues in DCU SC&A found these delicate Victorian easter cards laying amid the pages of one of our early printed books as if they'd been bought just yesterday! Produced by Joseph Mansell they're hand drawn & coloured with a metallic finish on embossed lace paper. @dublincityuni.bsky.social
Victorian easter card depicting a lamb being slaughtered on an alter surrounded by grapes and a chalice. Printed on beautiful delicate embossed lace-paper Victorian easter card depicting crucifix surrounded by a crown of thorns. Printed on beautiful delicate embossed lace-paper
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Niamh Griffin @griffinniamh.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Mothers affected by the spinal surgery crisis at CHI spoke out again this week, calling really for an end to the problems #scoliosis #spinabifida www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...
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Niamh Griffin @griffinniamh.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Lots of people sounding the alarm about the v low uptake of bowel screening in Ireland - just 41% last year, way off the 65% target #bowelcancer www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...
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Ireland again misses target for bowel cancer screening as numbers taking lifesaving test drop
The HSE Bowelscreen can detect bowel cancer before signs or symptoms are even present
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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
WORLD-FIRST: Ground-breaking research published today in the Ornithologist Journal has, for the first time, translated common UK bird vocalisations into equivalent phrases in the human language. The results tell us a lot! Extracts below... 🧵
The front cover of a scientific journal titled Ornithologist, dated 1 April 2025. The main headline reads: “BIRDS: DECODED - Groundbreaking New Science.” Below that, a subheading says: “What are the UK’s birds really saying? Pioneering new research provides the answers.”
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Niamh Griffin @griffinniamh.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
2/ her concerns map what the MHC found in their report on the Cork unit #mentalhealth www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...
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'Serious concerns' raised about standards at mental health unit in Cork University Hospital
Mental Health Commission inspectors raised red flags around patient safety, quality of the building, and staff shortages
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Niamh Griffin @griffinniamh.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
It's been months since the Health Committee met, meanwhile Hiqa + Mental Health Commission finding more and more problems in residential centres This woman is afraid for her mum in an acute mental health unit #Cork www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...
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'If this is happening to my mother, it is everyone': Fears for patient safety at mental health unit
Mental Health Commission have inspectors downgraded the compliance rating of the centre to just 61% from 79% in 2020
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Niamh Griffin @griffinniamh.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Social media poses "the biggest risk" for women in #menopause , fascinating talk from Dr Cathy Casey HSE midwest www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...
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Social media myths 'pose biggest risk to women in menopause'
Consultant Cathy Casey cites dangerous misinformation such as debunked myth linking HRT with higher cancer risks
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Niamh Griffin @griffinniamh.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
We've met some powerhouses working in health, maternity and social care - many of them from this area in Bahr Al Ghazal state and pushing for change @concernworldwide.bsky.social
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Niamh Griffin @griffinniamh.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I'm working at the border between Sudan and South Sudan this week. The war in Sudan and spreading cholera outbreaks are putting pressures on locals in South Sudan - but they say they will not turn anyone away Many women described horrific sexual abuse while on the road #SouthSudan
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Irish Examiner @irishexaminer.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
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Prostate cancer screening pilot scheme in Waterford and Dublin
Trial scheme involving self testing at home followed by MRI scans promises faster access to prostate cancer treatment in Ireland
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Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
📢 Access to birth control in Ireland & challenges faced by women & men in navigating religious doctrine & the law vs social justice & health care on @newstalkfm.bsky.social panel made up of @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social @jenniferredmond.bsky.social @earner.bsky.social & me. @whaireland.bsky.social
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40 Years On: Contraceptives Legalised In Ireland | Newstalk
We're marking the 40th anniversary of the legalisation of the sale of contraceptives in Ireland i...
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Niamh Griffin @griffinniamh.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Another fascinating piece from Sarah Horgan - on the Irish people supporting canonisation of a young Italian gamer in @irishexaminer.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...
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Parishes across Ireland to mark canonisation of 'the patron saint of PlayStation' in April
Carlo Acutis was known for his good deeds as well as his avid interest in video games which he used to create a website documenting eucharistic miracles
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Niamh Griffin @griffinniamh.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Long covid has been one of the silent impacts of the pandemic really, people stay home and struggle on, but I still hear of people developing this now even though the pandemic is over. It's even harder now to say you have it - less sympathy from what patients tell us #speirgorm
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Niamh Griffin @griffinniamh.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
"We're damaged goods" nurses living with #longcovid since early in the pandemic describe their reality www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlig... Thanks to @inmoirl.bsky.social for help with this.
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'We’re damaged goods': Out-of-work nurses explain what it's like to live with long covid
Some who were on the front line during the pandemic are still feeling its effects
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Niamh Griffin @griffinniamh.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
The "incredible" impact of the HPV vaccine on pre-cancer cervical cancer rates on young women - @russelln.bsky.social from Cervical Check www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...
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Pre-cervical cancer now ‘rare’ in young women thanks to HPV vaccine
CervicalCheck clinical director says high-grade pre-cancer abnormalities in 25-year-olds has fallen from 5% to 1% thanks to HPV vaccination.
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Niamh Griffin @griffinniamh.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
And sometimes there's a good news story - www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...
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Salmon's 2,300km epic journey from Greenland back to Co Mayo
Inland Fisheries Ireland recorded the 'mystery fish' at Killary Harbour and could tell it had been tagged near a town called Qaqortoq, in southern Greenland
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Niamh Griffin @griffinniamh.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
85 people on hospital trolleys for longer than 24 hours by this morning - HSE figures And still no new health minister as the shenanigans in the Dail continue 🤦‍♀️
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Niamh Griffin @griffinniamh.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
when you see that it's literally anyone with a disability fighting for so much, no exceptions
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Niamh Griffin @griffinniamh.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
"Fearful that if I earn a certain amount over a threshold, my financial support for being disabled could be taken away, because apparently money makes you grow limbs."
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Niamh Griffin @griffinniamh.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Surgical hubs were supposed to be a rapid-response to overcrowding but we are already 18 months past the promised openings with a long way to go www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster... #speirgorm
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Surgical hubs for Cork and Limerick years behind schedule
Delays come despite government commitment in December 2022 that hubs would be open within 18 months
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Niamh Griffin @griffinniamh.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Something different - Sylvia Pankhurst's empathy for the 1916 Rising and Lockout in 1913 were many and beautifully expressed in her writing #spéirgorm www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
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Sylvia Pankhurst and the suffragettes' support for the Irish cause
Supporting the Irish rebels from London was not a popular move at the time, especially for a British woman already fighting for voting rights in her country
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Niamh Griffin @griffinniamh.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Thanks Emma! It seems like great setup here, so far anyway
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Niamh Griffin @griffinniamh.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Good luck Steven!
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Steven Heaney @shteaney.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Hello! I'm taking part in the Inishbofin half marathon & 10K in May, in aid of the Galway branch of Down Syndrome Ireland If you would like to donate and support this fundraiser, click the link below to my idonate page and follow the steps: idonate.ie/fundraiser/S... Cheers!
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Niamh Griffin @griffinniamh.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
When religion and science met, it made all the difference for this Scoliosis patient in #Tralee www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...
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Mother of Kerry woman 'eternally grateful' for spinal surgery in Padre Pio hospital
Camesha Leen, 17, was diagnosed with idiopathic scoliosis when she was 12
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Niamh Griffin @griffinniamh.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
This interview follows the fairly startling findings in the Healthy Ireland report before Xmas on carers' own health, mental and physical www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...
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Next government called on to provide funding to address health issues of family carers
Care Alliance Ireland call comes after survey revealed negative health impacts for carers, including sleep disturbance and poor mental health
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Niamh Griffin @griffinniamh.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Sinéad Tighe's GP thought she was having a stroke, but the symptoms were burnout from being a Carer www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...
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Carer was so burnt out her GP thought she'd had a stroke
There is an alarmingly high prevalence of loneliness and social exclusion amongst carers and its associations with poor health are also major challenges
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Cianan Brennan @ciananbrennan.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Only 5% of the €106m Ireland invested in cancer research went towards prevention www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...
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Cancer: Only 5% of the €106m Ireland invested in cancer research went towards prevention
HRB highlights 'potential investment gaps' as it reveals Ireland invested a total of €106m via 397 research grants over three years
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Niamh Griffin @griffinniamh.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
V interesting stats from the Healthy Ireland report this morning @roinnslainte.bsky.social Long Covid and carer responsibility included for the first time
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